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+ | # $EPIC: set_metric_time.txt,v 1.2 2006/08/20 13:51:17 sthalik Exp $ | ||
+ | ======Synopsis:====== | ||
+ | [[set]] metric time [ON|OFF|TOGGLE] | ||
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+ | ======Description:====== | ||
+ | For the discerning metric snob who turns his nose up at the idea of having to | ||
+ | deal with such baroque concepts as "seconds", "minutes" and "hours", we offer | ||
+ | Metric Time. Metric Time has only one unit of measure, the Day. When you turn | ||
+ | metric_time on, EPIC begins to do all internal time processing strictly in | ||
+ | milliday units. As a concession to those who are stuck in the slavery of | ||
+ | antiquated systems, /[[TIMER]], /[[PAUSE]] and /[[SLEEP]] continue to accept | ||
+ | the obsolete unit "second". | ||
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+ | Metric time has no time zone -- Time is measured in millidays since the | ||
+ | beginning of the day in Universal Coordinated Time. The status bar will begin | ||
+ | showing millidays, /[[ON TIMER]] and /[[ON IDLE]] will begin using millidays. | ||
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+ | Metric Time is different from Swatch Time because Swatch Time is based on the | ||
+ | time zone of the headquarters of the Swatch company, which is +0100. | ||
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